Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.
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Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
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I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.
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I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.
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And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.
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People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.
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When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.
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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
